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A Free College Is Free No More (Sort of) -- What That Means to You

Patrick O'Connor | Posted 05.10.2012

Read More: College Tuition, Applying to College, Free Colleges, College Financial Aid, Paying for College, College Admissions, College Applications, Cooper Union, Cooper Union Tuition, Detroit News

About two weeks ago, Cooper Union announced its plans to start charging tuition for some of its graduate students. Is this really a big deal in the college world? No and yes.

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Grace Lee Boggs Talks About The Revolutionary Life

The Huffington Post | Kathleen Massara | Posted 06.02.2012

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Grace Lee Boggs is approaching the ripe old age of 97, but she doesn't seem to be tiring a bit these days. It could be argued that there hasn't been a...

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East Village Coming And Goings: 7-Eleven And Lakeside Lounge

Posted 04.16.2012

Read More: 7-Eleven East Village, New York Chains, St. Mark's Place, 7-Eleven St. Mark's Place, Cooper Union, East Village, 7-Eleven, NY Real Estate, Lakeside Lounge, New York News

7-Eleven's plans to expand and subsequently destroy the city with 14 stores in 2012 is in full gear and their latest storefront has officially landed ...

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Saving a Bookshop With Local Love and Considerable National Help

Pearl Korn | Posted 01.14.2012

Read More: Lgbt, White House, Congress, St. Marks Bookshop, Cooper Union, Nyu, Lower East Side, LGBT Youth, Occupy Wall Street, Cooper-Square-Committee, Slavery, Abraham Lincoln, Charles Dickens, Newt Gingrich, Constitution, Mario Cuomo, New York News

This is a lovely, pre-holiday tale that could have captured the imagination of Charles Dickens. It is the story of a little, independent, different kind of bookshop that has served an artist and working-class community for 34 years.

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St. Mark's Bookshop Will NOT Be Closing

HuffingtonPost.com | Christopher Mathias | Posted 01.03.2012

Read More: St. Marks Bookshop, Cooper Union, Ny News, Lorin Stein, New York News, Salman Rushdie, Scott Stringer, Rosie-Mendez, New York News

The St. Mark's Bookshop will stay open, after all. At a press conference outside the store Thursday morning, Manhattan Borough President Scott M. Stri...

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10 Free Colleges

Posted 01.02.2012

Read More: College Rankings, Video, Cheapest Colleges, Lowest Tuition, Free Colleges, Service Academies, Cooper Union, College News

With college costs reaching insurmountable levels, tuition-free colleges are more important than ever. But even they are not immune to volatile econom...

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Cooper Union's Radical Consideration

Posted 01.01.2012

Read More: Cooper Union Admissions, Cooper Union Admissions Rate, Cooper Union, The Northeast, Cooper Union Tuition, Cooper Union Free Tuition, Cooper Union Charging Tuition, College News

Cooper Union, the much-revered arts school known for being free of charge, might soon require students to pay tuition for the first time since the col...

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100-Year-Old Artist's First Retrospective

Posted 11.16.2011

Read More: Will Barnet, Cy Twombly, Willem De Kooning, Boston Museum School, Cooper Union, Eva Hesse, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Arshille Gorky, Art Students League, New York City, National Academy Museum, Arts News

The art world can be a fickle beast. A young artist may find themselves rapidly ascending to the top only to feel the sting of Warhol's '15 minutes of...

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Astoria Characters: The Memory Keeper

Nancy Ruhling | Posted 08.14.2011

Read More: Stamp Collection, Astoria, Cooper Union, Beethoven, Bea Frish, Chicago, Eleanor Roosevelt, Connecticut, Astoria Characters, World War II, Schubert, Fdr, Great Depression, New York City Health and Hospitals Corp., Wedding, Nostalgia, New York News

Saving nearly a century and a half of family memorabilia is a remarkable feat. "I'm a keeper," 86-year-old Bea Frish says.

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Festival Of Ideas Kicks Off In NYC

Marina Cashdan | Posted 07.03.2011

This week a major cultural initiative will be launched, The Festival of Ideas for the New City, coordinated by the New Museum and scores of cultura...

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Artists Anonymous: The Irresistible Earnestness of the Bruce High Quality Foundation

Selby Drummond | Posted 06.05.2011

Read More: Cooper Union, Jeffrey Deitch, Creative Time, Rob Pruitt, Mfa, Education, Art, Bruce High Quality Foundation, Banksy, Teach 4 Amerika, Brucennial, Arts News

As sentimental as it sounds, the BHQF's most valuable offering is a community that admits, unabashedly, its love for art, and recommits itself to art daily despite all of the competition.

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AICA Awards 2011: Establishing a Narrative

Lisa Paul Streitfeld | Posted 06.04.2011

If the AICA critics failed to recognize exhibitions that illuminated human consciousness as the catalyst to the creation of art, it is because narrative is not an acceptable approach to curation.

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Tufts Provost To Head Cooper Union

Tufts Daily | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: The Northeast, Jamshed Bharucha Cooper Union, Tufts, Cooper Union New President, Tufts Daily, Jamshed Bharucha, Cooper Union, College News

Provost and Senior Vice President Jamshed Bharucha will leave Tufts at the end of the academic year to assume the position of president of The Cooper ...

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Cooper Union Art Student Loses Sight In Horrific Brooklyn Bike Accident

nydailynews.com | By Rich Shapiro | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Emilie Gossiaux, Cooper Union Student Bike Accident, Emilie Gossiaux Bike, Cooper Union, Gossiaux, College News

A talented Cooper Union art student was left blind after a tractor-trailer crashed into her bike in Brooklyn two months ago. Emilie Gossiaux, 21, s...

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A Collage of Artists: Presenting the Lou Beaches

Lisa Adams | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Alpha Lubicz, Lou Beach, Cooper Union, Issa Sharp, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 420 Characters, Contemporary Art, Pasadena Art Center College of Design, Los Angeles County High School for the Arts, Alison Saar, Surrealism, John Heartfield, Nickelodeon Animation Studios, Betye Saar, Los Angeles, Collage Art, Works on Paper, Gene Pool, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Sam Lubicz, LA Weekly, Weather Report, Pasadena, Burbank, Tandanori Yokoo, Matt Groening, Nickelodeon, Max Ernst, Lezley Saar, Arts News

There is definitely an argument for working in close proximity to other artists -- that's why they invented art colonies. The Lou Beaches demonstrate that the family that glues together sticks together.

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EXHIBITION SPOTLIGHT: Tom Wesselmann's 'Works 1958-2004' At Haunch Of Venison, London

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Great American Nude, Willem De Kooning, London, Haunch of Venison, Slidefullscreen, Pop Art, Cooper Union, Tom Wesselmann, Arts News

WHO: Tom Wesselman WHAT: Works 1958-2004 WHEN: 8 October- 6 November 2010 WHERE: Haunch of Venison 6 Burlington Gardens London W1S 3ET United Kingd...

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The Nuclear Free Future Award

Conchita Sarnoff | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Politics, Cooper Union, Nuclear Weapons, Oglala Sioux Tribe, Nuclear Power, Uranium, Abraham Lincoln, Science, Depleted Uranium, Chief Oren Lyons, Nuclear-Free World, New York News

On September 30, 2010, at The Great Hall of Cooper Union in New York City, Amy Goodman, host of Democracy Now!, and Claus Biegert, co-founder of the N...

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THE SKINNY: The Creative Time Summit 'Revolutions In Public Practice,' NYC

Posted 05.25.2011

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WHAT: The Creative Time Summit: Revolutions in Public Practice 2 WHO: Presenters include Danielle Abrams, Basekamp, Saskia Bos, The Bruce High Quali...

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How to Fix the Wall Street Reform Bill

Zach Carter | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Fed, Foreclosures, Cooper Union, Tbtf, Derivatives, Financial Reform, Mccain, Obama, Aig, Wall Street Reform, Cfpa, Financial Crisis, Dodd, Subprime, Bank Bailout, Glass-Steagall, Wall Street Bailout, Audit the Fed, Too Big to Fail, Business News

Washington has tied itself in knots trying to find a way to thwart "too big to fail" without cutting megabanks down to size. It can't be done. When something is too big, the solution is to make it smaller.

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George Campbell, Cooper Union President, To Retire In 2011

Crain's New York Business | Posted 05.25.2011

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The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art announced Tuesday that its president, George Campbell Jr., will retire at the end of the 2010-...

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Make Congress Live Up To Obama's Reforms

Zach Carter | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Foreclosures, Cooper Union, Wall Street Reform, Cfpa, Financial Reform, Volcker Rule, Dodd, Obama, Subprime, Bank Bailout, Wall Street Bailout, Volcker, Financial Crisis, Business News

President Barack Obama identified five major problems on Wall Street in his speech at Cooper Union today. Unfortunately, the solutions he has proposed...

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GOP Raised Wall Street Cash During Obama's Cooper Union Speech

Posted 05.25.2011

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From HuffPost Hill newsletter: HuffPost's Arthur Delaney from the front lines of our Republic's slow rot: While President Obama begged Wall Street t...

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Make the Call or Get Out of the Booth: After the President's "Wall Street" Speech

Simon Johnson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Obama Financial Reform, Cooper Union, Wall Street Crisis, The Financial Fix, Wall Street, Financial Reform, Too Big to Fail, Economic Crisis, Obama, Megabanks, Financial Crisis, Business News

The president's rhetoric today at Cooper Union was commendable. But there is still the awkward question of legislation that would actually reduce the political power of big banks.

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The Speech: The Good, The Bad and The Missing

Dylan Ratigan | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Obama Financial Reform, Cooper Union, Wall Street Crisis, The Financial Fix, Wall Street, Financial Reform, Too Big to Fail, Economic Crisis, Obama, Megabanks, Financial Crisis, Business News

The revolving door between government regulators and the high-paying banks they supposedly regulate remains as fluid as ever. None of what Obama said today matters while our cops still work for the crooks.

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Obama Cooper Union Speech: Reforming Wall Street Is Good For Main Street

HuffingtonPost.com | Bill Lucey | Posted 05.25.2011

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Far from the high-pitched partisan rhetoric so prevalent during the health care debate, President Obama's financial regulatory reform address at Coope...

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